This week’s photo prompt is provided by Tim Livingston with the blog, The ForesterArtist. Thank you Tim for our photo prompt this week!
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Abandoned
by Teresa Smeigh March 2017
The boys were all avidly listening to the speaker. They were at a campout and it was time for ghost stories. Rudy volunteered to go first.
It was dark beyond the campfire. The boys were teasing Rudy for believing in ghosts.
“Shssh,” he said, “this is real.”
The boys all laughed, but finally settled down.
Rudy began speaking, “the Vegas family was known around the area as criminals. All of them. Most of the residents believed them, but one family, Mr. and Mrs. Stein scoffed at the stories. One day they disappeared in their old car. They were never found.”
The boys started laughing again and teasing Rudy. The leader was trying to settle them all down when right near them in the woods, lights turned on and a motor started to run.
The leader was laughing until the car started out of the woods and headed right towards him. He ran after the boys
Rudy’s older brother Randy roared with laughter, then abandoned the old rusty car.
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Tessa –
Advocate for mental health and invisible illnesses, also a devout Christian
Author – http://www.finallyawriter.com (this blog contains my old work mostly although occasionally I do add something new here), new work is mainly on this blog http://www.tessacandoit.com
Ha, excellent take. I bet they get Randy back in the future, mean trick! 🙂
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Thank you. Boys will be boys LOL!
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Hahahaha! That was kind of mean of Randy to scare the boys like that but it sure made for a good story! LOL!
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Thank you, I couldn’t decide to make it a fake ghost or a real one at the end, but ran out of words.
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Haha! Well, it worked! 🙂
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Fun story, Tessa! And very naughty of Randy haha!
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Thanks!
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I would have run to, if Randy’s brother was driving.🙂
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Thanks!
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Some well intentioned fun here.
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Thanks!
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I guess it was kind of mean, but then the boys deserved it for taking the mickey out of Rudy! Nice take on the prompt Tessa. Love how we all come up with such different stories 🙂
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I try not to read others first so never know if it is different or not most of the time.
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Good idea I think – too easy to be influenced by other ideas! 🙂
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Yes it is 🙂
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🙂
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Sounds like a joke that you would find going on in many of these youth camps 🙂 Brilliantly told.
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Thank You!. I thought of that one as soon as I saw the picture. Sometimes I get nothing though. This just wanted to be written.
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Wonder how he got it started.
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Didn’t think that far ahead. Not enough words to get into details LOL!
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Hahahaha, ohh I needed to read this. Absolutely enjoyed the story
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Great Thanks!
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I needed a good laugh, and this was perfect! I hope the boys don’t ever find out about who was behind the prank, but credit to Randy for getting the car to run properly in the first place!
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Thank you!
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Looks like Randy scared the shit outta them! 😀 Great take.. (Y)
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Thanks, yes he did!
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Scared me too! Nice one.
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Had trouble leaving a comment. WordPress and Blogspot aren’t very compatible. 🙂
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Very neat. 🙂
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Older brothers…I tell ya…:)
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I was the oldest in my family. I and one of the other sibs would gang up on the other one. There were 3 of us.
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I was the exact middle of 5…don’t ask…:P
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Great take on the prompt!
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Thank you!
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Hey! writewithjishnu.wordpress.com is back! Care to have a look?
Regards!
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I will try to participate.
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